Drugs, Inc.

The gambling mecca Sin City plays host to has 40 million tourists a year. But there's another side to the neon glitz. In storm drains beneath the Las Vegas strip, homeless addicts get high on crack in underground shanties, while in half-built suburbs, police battle marijuana gangs for control of the city's slump-hit homes.

Alaska has a dark secret ' it has one of the biggest drug problems in America. We'll get a firsthand look at the effects of heroin and the withdrawal symptoms involved in using the drug. A heroin addict since the age of 11, 56-year-old Janet turned to prostitution to pay for her habit. She shows us her 'corner,' as she picks up a 'trick' before shooting up the profits.

New York City is in the grip of a heroin epidemic, as a new generation of middle-class suburbanite dealers hooked on prescription pills switch to heroin, and venture down the Long Island Expressway ' dubbed the 'Heroin Highway' ' into urban Brooklyn and Queens to get their fix.

In Montana's wilderness, man poses the greatest threat to drug smugglers crossing the Canadian/American border. Long winters, boredom and isolation, fuel addicts' urgency for drugs.

In Los Angeles, California the pressures of the fame game turn many to heroin, cocaine and prescription pills. This film meets the dealers, the starlets abusing drugs to cope with pressures in Tinseltown, the crooked doctor supplying Adderall, a pharmaceutical amphetamine that has become the latest must have diet pill, and the wannabes who gave up everything to pursue their entertainment dreams.

The local drug scene casts a dark shadow on the sunny lifestyle of Puerto Rico ' a place where addicts roam the streets in search of their next fix. For Dr. Panelli, treating abusers for 'jungle rot,' a ghastly condition that comes with using injected drugs, can be an overwhelming task.

The most dangerous city in the USA, Detroit, is a perfect mark for today's growing drug industry. Dealers are learning cater to inner city clientele by selling smaller amounts of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine for single-digit prices.

In London, dubbed the 'cocaine capitol of Europe,' drug lords are experiencing a boom in homegrown marijuana that has turned Britain into an exporting country. While cocaine is the preferred drug for upper- and middle-class Londoners, in the tough housing projects of East London, marijuana reigns as king.